Dear Michael Bay, please stop making movies, thanks.

Rating: 4/10 (11 January 2011)

Ah, The Island, a Michael Bay film about people who are really clones that are to be harvested for their organs so the super rich can live longer, what's not to like? As it turns out most of the movie. Except for Steve Buscemi, who is quite amusing, and a few nifty gadgets and sci-fi tech, the movie is basically pointless.
Set in the mid 21st century, The Island is set in a world that has the technology to create vat grown human adults to be used as living organ banks for their clients. The clones live in a police state that is straight out of 1984. One such clone (Ewan McGreggor) discovers the truth and escapes with his closest friend (Scarlett Johanson). Thus ensues a series of car chases, foot chases, and jetbike chases, any attempt to make the movie mean anything is completely thrown out the window in favor of big explosions, death defying feats, and more chase scenes.
This wouldn't be all bad but the supposedly elite forces tracking down the escaped clones (ex delta force, S.W.A.T., and other special forces operatives) display remarkable amounts of blatant stupidity and incompetence. Time and time again the untrained, uneducated, sheltered clones best the goons sent after them and escape only to be tracked down so they can escape again. The movie has a natural end almost a half hour before the movie actually ends, it would have cut down on the mindlessness of the film and might have actually raised a few interesting moral questions. Instead Bay insists on the big Hollywood happy ending with the giant fight scene between the hero and the villain with all kinds of explosions and gunfire to accentuate the anti-climax. The Island didn't have to suck, but yet it does.